Glimpses of the Left..

eturned and saw what happened, to enter the bod
a boy and walk into the town so could see the apprentic
scholar did not want to be accused of murdering the unfortuna
pOi5SeSS€�d body went out house and walked
through the town until the demon left it. Then it fell on the ground as if
boy had a attack and died natural causes.45
Agrippa's reputation of a sorcerer was reinforced by the publication of 11uI
Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, a supplement to his De Occulta.
Phi,/osclVhia. The fourth book gained a notorius publicity because of the
to black evocations, etc. It
appeared in Latin some death and its
authorship has been often
from the
rlh;"" ,.,,,, , techniques of summoning
angelic but the so called
work describes methods extracting names of good and
corresponding to the seven Then, the author explains how to
fashion characters of lines and heads and
tabulation of the most popular shapes associated with and planets to !
they are attributed. There is a treatise on and sigils, �
consecration of instruments used in rituals and ceremonies and preparation j
of Liber Spiritum (the Book of Spirits). The directions for communicating 1
with evil resemble those presented in other Before j
summoning a a magician has to take into account several basic (
what it is associated its properties, the convenient time :
the operation, the quality of air and the proper for a magical
circle. In the circle the magician to write proper names: of the
summoned evil spirit and the ones that are supposed to constrain it,
also certain characters and pentacles to the place. the '
are complete, the and his assistants consecrate the
circle and begin the "''''�'''' ... 'nr."
gives 1'.".,,,.,,,, ... l-,,,,,
planetary spirits, those of
assumed by the
Mercury, also
the Sun and the Moon. The the book contains a short
description of necromantic
which is as such descriptions are
45 Michael Baigent, Richal'd The Elixir and the Stone
-68-
the of the
given in other
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